Transcribed from [1844?] Aylott and Jones edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org THOUGHTS ON SLAVERY AND CHEAP SUGAR, A Letter TO THE MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. BY JAMES EWING RITCHIE. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * LONDON: AYLOTT AND JONES, 8, PATERNOSTER ROW. * * * * * _Price Eightpence_. * * * * * _In some papers this Pamphlet was advertised as published at Sixpence_; _it has been found_, _however_, _desirable to alter the price_. _To those who may discover coincidences of matter and manner between these pages and those of the Philanthropist_, _the Author has only to add_, _that having gone over much of the same ground in that Journal_, _he thought himself justified in introducing such facts as might be available here_. * * * * * London: Blackburn and Pardon, Printers, 6, Hatton Garden. * * * * * _To the Members and Friends of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society_. GENTLEMEN, AT the Annual Meeting of your Society, that has just been held, one of the most crowded you have ever convened, the able and eloquent advocate of free trade, George Thompson, succeeded in carrying an amendment, notwithstanding the avowed opposition of your officers and Committee; an amendment of the most essential importance, pledging you to the consideration of a subject that threatens to impair the usefulness, and to imperil the very existence of the Society you support. As a sincere well-wisher to that Society, as one eager with yourselves for the abolition of slavery throughout the world, the writer of the following pages beseeches you to peruse them in the spirit of anxious solicitude with which they were penned.